What No One Tells Black Women About Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is good for mom and baby but stigma and medical discrimination keep many Black women from trying

Nina Bahadur
ZORA
Published in
5 min readAug 24, 2020

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After Kimberly Seals Allers gave birth to her son, she went to a local La Leche League meeting to get support from other breastfeeding moms. “But there was nobody who looked like me, and certainly…

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